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@Lorien; If Marisa is OK with 'giving away' the previews before the 1st of April, I would love to see what everyone created thus far. Maybe we could do the same as we're doing in the weekly 'layout critique'? Give positive feedback on each others designs?

Shelly, your kit is great! I really love the swirly-centered flowers and the branch. It looks very professional! This is my first so I'm feeling really insecure. Are there any others out there who felt/feel the same way? I'm thinking I need to just "jump in" anyway.

okay, I'm gonna try and post my previews. (We'll see if I can do it before letting the blog go live.)

I didn't put all the monotone blocks or journaling cards in the preview. Also the previews have shadows added. I did supply BOTH a shadowed version and un-shadowed versions of the honey jar. Otherwise I left the elements to be shadowed by user, since sometimes I shadow differently depending on the layout.

I only did 5 papers, I wasn't pleased with the others I tired...so I just focused on the elements.

Excited about sharing my work for the first time.
Hope these previews encourage and inspire more folks to join us. I loved seeing ALL the stuff from the Feb Retro Kitchen.

These are all wonderful! I've been away from my computer for the last week. There may be a way to design on an iPad but I don't have that skill, so I'll be glad to get home in a few days and start designing my first kit.

Ohh You ladies ALL did wonderful jobs~! It's all going to come together so cute

Lou Anne... Thanks so much....yes... jump in... you'll do great, and be sailing along before you know it {{{hug}}}

Thanks again for all of your kind words...

Laura.. all so cute...I especially love those blocks and cards~!
Dana... your kit is most adorable...cute little bees for sure~!
Saskia... love the elegance you have in your kit~!
Jenn... always wonderful... looks fabulous~!

Thanks Cat, I saw Sugarbutt's freebie, but I use GIMP. If anyone knows about anything for GIMP, post a link? I'll see if I can figure out how to do this manually in GIMP. I've not figured out how to do anything like actions in GIMP yet either. I need to though, it takes me way back in time 25 years to when I was working in the Computer Support while my Hubby went to Seminary...I taught the secretaries how to make Macros.

I searched google for "pixelscrapper forum quality check" to find the threads where this was discussed before as well. Always something more to learn.

@Laura, unfortunately, PS actions won't run on GIMP. There have been a few GIMP plugins developed to handle PS actions, but they don't really work. I'm sure there are tutorials out there that can show you how to create a script/action in GIMP so you can do your quality checking. The first place I would start would be the community at OpenSource.